Showing posts with label David Howarth. Show all posts
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019

We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance by David Howarth


We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance by David Howarth

FIVE STARS - Survival beyond all odds

1943 occupied Norway resistance braves the Arctic, Nazi brutality, and overwhelming odds to persist. Excellent, fast moving and gripping. 

An excerpt:
Jan knew, and so did the Mandal men, the results of the uncontrolled anger of Germans when they found out that a whole community had deceived them. It had happened on the west coast, and villages had been systematically burnt, all the men in them shipped to Germany and the women and children herded into concentration camps in Norway.

The Shetland Bus: A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival, and Adventure by David Howarth


BOOK REVIEW
The Shetland Bus: A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival, and Adventure by David Howarth
FIVE STARS

The saltiest sailors in the world.

A factual compilation of WWII Norse resistance: One of thirteen overrun nations, little Norway was the first to counterattack the Nazi invaders and they used German made Krupp cannons sending 1,600 sailors and three battle ships to the bottom of Oslo Fjord. 

Wartime resistance came from Norse fishermen using their own vessels along Norway’s North Atlantic coast nonstop through gales and hurricanes. Excellent!!!